DER HEISSE SOLDAT UND ANDERE GESCHICHTEN. München: Albert Langen, Verlag für Litteratur und Kunst, 1903. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-147 [148-152: ads], Color frontispiece and illustrated title leaf, Art Nouveau head and tail pieces, original gray cloth, front and spine panels stamped in white, publisher's imprint blind stamped on rear panel, top edge stained red, decorated endpapers. First edition. Meyrink's first fantasy book (and first book as well). The stories Meyrink published in the Munich satirical periodical SIMPLICISSIMUS, were collected in three small volumes, DER HISSE SOLDAT (1903), ORCHIDEEN (1904), and DAS WACHSFIGURENKABINETT (1907), all combined with some other stories in DES DEUTSCHEN SPIESSERS WUNDERHORN (1913). See Pringle (ed), St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers, p. 674. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), p. 642. Bloch 2137. A very good copy. (#152269).
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